The difference between the standard and the Lorentz transformations of the electric and the magnetic fields (Q816170)

The author proves by using the Clifford algebra formalism that the usual Lorentz transformations of the 3-dimensional vectors of the electric and magnetic fields (which are called standard transformations) are different from the Lorentz transformations of well-defined quantities from the four-dimensional spacetime. This difference between the standard transformations and Lorentz transformations is obtained regardless of the used algebraic objects (1-vectors or bivectors) for the representations of the electric and magnetic fields in the usual observer dependent decompositions of \(F\). The Lorentz transformations correctly transform the whole four-dimensional quantity. The new decomposition of \(F\) in terms of four-dimensional quantities that are defined without reference frames, i.e., the absolute quantities representing electric and magnetic fields correctly describe the motional electromotive force (emf) for all relatively moving inertial observers, whereas this is not the case with the standard transformations of the 3-dimensional electric and magnetic fields.